How do I keep quality up when I'm pushing my crew to hit the bid?

You are caught between the bid and the finish, pushing a pace that the quality you care about cannot survive. You know good work when you see it, and you know you are asking your crew to fall short of it. That is a hard thing for a craftsman to make peace with. Name the real tension: the bid was set to win the job, and now the work has to fit inside it. Sometimes that math is simply wrong, and no pace can fix it. Learn from that for the next bid. Price the quality you actually intend to deliver, so you are not forced to steal it back on the job. On the work you have now, protect the parts that matter most and let the invisible corners go. A good painter knows where quality shows and where it does not. Teach your crew that judgment. It is how you keep your standards alive even under a clock that will not slow down.